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2 Chronicles 19:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
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Role in This Section
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Jehu rebukes the returned king.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 19:1–3
Read 2 Chronicles 19:3 with 19:1–3. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Jehoshaphat returns safely, but Jehu asks whether he should help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD, while still recognizing good in his reforms.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 19:3 depends on 19:1–3; isolating “Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Jehu rebukes the returned king.”
Read 2 Chronicles 19:1–3 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 19:1–3 forms the complete movement “Jehu rebukes the returned king”: Jehoshaphat returns safely, but Jehu asks whether he should help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD, while still recognizing good in his reforms.
Verse 1. 1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
Verse 2. 2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
Verse 3. 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Chronicles 19:1–3 — Jehu rebukes the returned kingSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 19:1–3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 19:1–3
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